"15 seconds of
fame" is an interactive art installation which elevates the face of a
randomly selected gallery visitor for 15 seconds into a "work of
art". The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol's statement:

"In the future everybody will be
famous for fifteen minutes."

and by the pop-art style of his works. The installation consists of a
computer with a flat-panel monitor, a digital camera and proprietary
software that can detect human faces in images and graphically transform
them.

Every 15 seconds a picture of people
standing in front of the installation is taken by the digital camera,
which is hidden in the frame of the picture/monitor. Software then automatically
detects faces of people in this image, randomly selects the face of one of them, crops
the selected face from the larger picture and graphically transforms it.
The resulting pop-art portrait is then displayed for 15 seconds on the
picture/monitor together with a unique ID number. The installation tries
to illustrate that anybody can in fact become famous but fame is also
random and short lived.

You can order your portrait by sending e-mail to ""
with the corresponding ID number in the subject field during and up to 1
month after each exhibition. Only one portrait can be ordered in a single
e-mail.The requested portrait is sent to your e-mail.